Highlighting genocide of people by Pakistan Army and spy agencies, Baloch urges UN to intervene

Geneva, September 18: Unveiling the dreading mask of violation and harassment, the Baloch activists on Tuesday shouted slogans against the Pakistani Army and its spy agencies. The Baloch Voice Association (BVA) organised a protest at Broken Chair, in front of the United Nations office here, demanding its intervention to stop human rights violations in Balochistan.

 

The Pakistan Occupied Kashmir region of Balochistan have been undergoing through torture and atrocities for a long time. Voicing loud and clear, the Baloch activists have urged the United Nations to take action against Pakistan. The activists this time, shouted slogans against the Pakistan Army and its spy agency, the Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI), for kidnappings, torturing and killing of human rights activists and intellectuals from Balochistan.

President of the BVA, Munir Mengal, said, “The main aim of today's protest was to raise the voices of the people who are being victimised back at home by the Pakistani army. What crime have they committed that the state is inflicting such brutalities and they have to pay that by their blood.” Adding further he said, “We have asked the United Nations to intervene. It is not only restricted to any particular region. Instead, the Baloch, Pashtuns, and everybody is crying. They have joined hands with China and each day the incidents of human rights violations are rising.”

Thousands of Balochs are disappearing and the families are unable to trace their whereabouts. They are kidnapped by Pakistan's security agencies, the activists alleged. Exposing Pakistan over the atrocities and barbarism it has committed since the past 72 years, the activists want the UN to raise its voice and pressurise the neighbouring nation to stop its systematic genocide against our people.

The protesters also noted that the Baloch demand independence from Pakistan as it was an independent nation before 1947 and was forcibly occupied. Slamming Pakistan an activists told the media, “On one hand, they say that India is doing atrocities in Kashmir while on the other, Pakistan is curbing the media from reporting in Ghotki, Sindh, Waziristan. If they are so correct with their agenda, then why don't they allow the media to report from its minority areas.”

Pakistan is not only blamed for human rights violations in its own country, but its engagement of promoting 'jihad' in neighbouring Afghanistan is also condemned. Political activists from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) who took part in the UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva also condemned Pakistan's duplicity over handling of the Kashmir issue.